Guardian Cryptic Crossword
Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers & Hints - October 21, 2026
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Puzzle date
October 21, 2026
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Clue index
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Across
1.Deserved relaxation eventually, being lugged around6 letters5.Bag is in right end of busy dressing room8 letters9.Really excellent ball game cheers king8 letters10.Food manufacturers are in protected position6 letters11.Vaccination booster?12 letters13.Live with a socially superior admirer4 letters14.Sacked, one inept dancer who is so unnaturally tall?8 letters17.Police chief overrides law for possibly harmful agents8 letters18.Astroturf is too much for left-winger4 letters20.Love acting, without hope of success12 letters23.Boiler given oxygen going vigorously like this?6 letters24.His toast wants a spread? I don’t believe you8 letters25.Uncanny children almost messing with time8 letters26.Old district, not one part of America6 letters
Down
2.Money maker a failure? Not entirely4 letters3.It is essential, born on earth, to accept some failing occasionally9 letters4.Modern business caught up in catastrophe6 letters5.Breaded fish women organised after children’s game and before church15 letters6.Monument not cheap to sculpt8 letters7.A lot of lies not initially a problem5 letters8.Indulgence of endlessly pilfered allowance10 letters12.In a row preserving alliance is concerning high-ranking politician10 letters15.Become part of group felling giant tree9 letters16.Emphasise bell stops contest8 letters19.Simple restaurant’s gravy overcomes resistance6 letters21.Captain Ahab for one losing weight gets fitter5 letters22.Capital both sides lost in trade union’s protest4 letters
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